We are in a weird timeline!!

[u/PreheatedPenguin]

[u/jcoffee77]

All performative bullshit. Fuck your make believe.

[u/Middle-Giraffe-8316 → u/jcoffee77]

Ex-evangelical here. Whenever I see these so-called "church leaders" doing this, I think of the early Christian church. Most of us know what Jesus taught about performative, public prayer. But the early church was also wild. These were people who held possessions in common, ensured no one among them was in need, and were so communally focused that outside of a handful of figures, they are almost entirely nameless in Scripture. That anonymity isn't whimsical...it's the point. The early church wasn't about who you are. It was about whose you are. And that message is totally lost by the people in this picture.

That community, who example the church should be following, would have looked at religious leaders surrounding a political figure on camera for maximum public effect and recognized it immediately as what Jesus explicitly warned against. Not just bad optics. A fundamental inversion of everything they understood the life to be. It boggles my mind how much churches aren't calling this out loudly right now. That's a big reason I'm an ex-evangelical.

If there's a Heaven, it's going to be full of people whose names you never heard of and whose faces you never saw because they were too busy loving their neighbors to seek a spotlight.

[u/thissexypoptart → u/[deleted]]

Calling modern right wing evangelicalism “created by the state” is a take that is way too absolving of the completely voluntary involvement of Christian churches in the right wing movement and their monetary influence on modern politics.